From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:00:16 -0500 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> From: "Lawrence E. Bakst" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [9fans] Cute plan9/inferno client? Topicbox-Message-UUID: a24b8918-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 At 12:38 PM -0500 1/27/11, erik quanstrom wrote: >On Thu Jan 27 12:37:34 EST 2011, ml@iridescent.org wrote: >> http://www.semiaccurate.com/2011/01/26/compulab-announces-tegra-2-powered-trim-slice/ >> > >nvidia. those are the closed-source everything guys, right? > >- erik I deleted a line from the post that said the big issue will be the quality of the hardware doc, if there even is any. Still, if it ends up running linux there might be some hope. The Tegra 3 would make a nice small ARM based server/terminal with a quad core Cortex A9. I wouldn't rule out getting doc on everything but the 3D unit. Even in that case, some of Nvidia's 3D GPUs instruction sets have been reverse engineered. In case you haven't noticed all of the major 3D chips guys are closed source. I once had a high level discussion with some 802.11 chip companies about open source drivers. Their biggest fear seems to be in revealing all of the various bugs in their chips. Which I thought was interesting. leb -- leb@iridescent.org